Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-09
LASTWEEK'SWEATHER
4 SUMMARY PROM THE WEATHER POrN
DRY At WASHINGTON.
A Bulletin Giving Reliable Information Relative 10 the
Climatic Conditions in the Agricultural.
DiStricts-yal1able Data br
the Farmers

WASHINGTON, May 9.-General Greely,
chief signal officer, has arranged to issue,
beginning with to-day. special weekly
bulletin, with the view OF promptly plac-
ing before the public each Monday morn-
ing reliable information relative to the
climatic conditions in the agricultural dis
tricts of the country. Ii is believed that
these bulletins containing the deficiencies,
or excess relative to the temperatures and
rain fall during the growing season, will
serve as reliable basis for determining the
conditions favorable or unlavorahe for the
growing crops.
Followingis
THIN WEATHER crop III LIETIN
for the week ending Saturday May eth,
lsS1:
SIGNAL OFFICE WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON CITY, May :. lSS7.
TEMPERATURES. During the present year.
commencing with January LIST and ending
May lSt, the weather has been colder than
usual in the States boarding OH the Allan
tic coast and from New England westward
over the great lakes, upper Mississippi and
Missouri valleys to the Rocky Mountains;
the regions OF greatest cold being in the
States boarding on the great lakes and
thence westward Ia the Missouri river,
over which the aggregate efficiency
Of the daily mean temperatures
from January lst Ia date ranged
from ao0 degrees To 400 degrees ian aver
age daily deficiency from about IL degrees
to degrees In northern New England
and in the south Atlantic States, the total
deficiency in temperature ranged from 100
degrees 10 roo degrees Tor an average Of
from about Ia degrees colder than
usual.
The weather has been warmer than usual
since January LIST in the Fast and West
Gulf States, Tennessee, Kentucky. West
|. Virginia, and IN the northern portions oi
Ohio, Illinois and Missouri; the aggregate
excess of the daily mean temperatures from
January LIST Ia date, ranging from loo de-
grees To POO degrees over the whole region
named. During the week ending May :,
1857, the temperature has been warmer
than the average for the week in all dis
tricts east OF the Rocky Mountains, except
ing Florida peninsula and Texas. The IN
crease OF temperature over the normal for
the week in the wheat and corn regions
north OF the 10th parallel of latitude, has
averaged about 80 degrees, and this excess
has therefore caused rapid advance Of
the season over the region where II was
ariaI IA, IA. .nutb tb, r..,,nn
of excessive temperature. has received
still further increase and along the Allan
tic coast the eNcess ol temperature for the
week ranged from - degrees Ia ~ degrees.
thereby reducing the deficiency in the
temperature Tor the season IN these States
and giving conditions favorable la agricul-
tural interests.
RAIN FALL.
during the season from January lst TO
May lst, 1877. Since January lst there
has been q large deficiency in rain fall in
northern States, ranging from q 10 y in
chcs in the Gulf States and the interior Of
the South Atlantic States. The dedcicn-
cy in the grain regions Of the Northwest has
been slight, ranging from Ia 3 inches
in the lower Mississippi valley, aud aver
aging about one inch in the upper Mis-
sissippi valley. The only regions showing
an excess Of precipitation for the season are
~ follows: Northern New England, the
Hudson RIVER valley, the upper Ohio
valley, stations on Lake Erie and in
eastern Michigan and in the western por-
tons OF Kansas and Nebraska The great
est excess ranging from 3 10 inches for
the season covers northern and western
Ohio, the western portions of PcDDsylya-
MIA and New York. Slight deficiency IN
the rain fall for the season are reported
from central and southern California.
During the
WEEK ENDING MAY 7TH, lss7:
During the past week the rain falls in the
northern portions of Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Dakota, and in the west Gulf
States, in central Mississippi, northern
Georgia, and central Alabama, have Isen
slightly above the average for the week,
the heaviest rain falls occurring In eastern
Texas, Arkansas and southern Missouri,
thus in measure allaying the dronib
previously existing in those sections. In
the western portions Of New Yofk aud
'ulb, lUf
riin fall for the week has served
to increase the e,oc~ OF rain
fall already reported in those sections. 10
will thus be seen that the season 10 date
in the various sections Of the country has
been about m follows. In the grain re
gions Of the north ID has been com mpsratiye-
y cold and dry, in the cotton regions in
the west Of Georgia warm and unusually
dry; in the cotton and rice regions on the
south Atlantic coast cold and
comparatively dry; in the tobaoco
regions Of Virginia aud North Carolina
cold and dry in the tolnoco regions Of Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, the
weather has been warmer, with rain falling
slightly less than usual except IN northern
Kentucky, where the rainfall WAS slightly
in excess. From the reports received, IL
appears that the meteorological conditions
Of the past week have had the eject Of rap
idly advancing the season in tbDSe sections
where il had been previously retarded.
Signed A. W. GREELY,
Chief Signal Oflicer